Many people posting here seem to think that those erecting ladders and tents are coming out early to put them up and staying with them. Some of them were up for days with nary a sole in site. The streetcar didn't run from Friday lunchtime until after the truck parades. Why, because there were tents and tarps all over them. There ended up being no parades Uptown on Saturday, yet the tents were preserving spots all day while their owners were presumably at another spot for Endymion. A couple of years ago you could walk/run from Lee Circle to Napoleon on the streetcar tracks on Sunday morning of Mardi Gras. You cannot do this at any time anymore between Friday and Tuesday. It would be easy to enforce the existing ordinances about ladders and tents by posting one or two cops. A cop on a bicycle could easily patrol from Louisiana to Napoleon, or Jackson to Washington, and tell people they can't put a tent up on the neutral ground. The ladder law should be easy to enforce. No ladders between the street and the tracks on the neutral ground side, and not between the sidewalk and the street on the sidewalk side. If we try and allow the streetcar to run until two hours before and after the parade, all that would have to move. Let's just put a cowcatcher on the streetcar and take it from their.